Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Tweets President Trump Determined to Start War with North Japan-Fiction!

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Tweets President Trump Determined to Start War with North Japan-Fiction!

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Tweets President Trump Determined to Start War with North Japan-Fiction!

Summary of eRumor:

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) tweeted that President Trump is determined to start war with "North Japan" and referenced Nixon bombing Germans at Pearl Harbor.

The Truth:

A website that allows users to generate fake tweets from high-profile people is behind Sheila Jackson Lee's bogus tweet about Trump starting war with North Japan.
The historically inaccurate fake tweet first surfaced in December 2017 and re-circulated in January 2018. In it, Jackson Lee appears to bungle historical details of historical events during the 20th century and invent "North Japan."
[caption id="attachment_106646" align="aligncenter" width="611"] A website that allows users to create fake tweets is behind a false rumor that Sheila Jackson Lee tweeted President Trump is determined to start war with North Japan.[/caption]
In reality, a Tweeterino.com user created the fake tweet. The website allows users to type whatever they want into a field, and then it turns it into an image that looks like a tweet from public figures.

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Users can then share screen grabs of the tweets, often misleading and confusing others:
[caption id="attachment_106647" align="aligncenter" width="749"] Tweeterino.com makes it easy to generating hoax tweets like the one about Sheila Jackson Lee.[/caption]
Sheila Jackson Lee has been a frequent target of Tweeterino.com users. We previously debunked a tweet claiming that she blamed a train derailment in Washington State on Trump's "racist agenda." This "North Japan" tweet is the latest hoax.

A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:

Collected on: 01/22/2018

A website that allows users to create fake tweets is behind a false rumor that Sheila Jackson Lee tweeted President Trump is determined to start war with North Japan.